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Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 111

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Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 111 is a scholarly collection presenting an array of advanced studies in ancient literature and culture. This volume features essays analysing key classical texts and themes, including Homeric invisibility and sight, Pindaric superlatives, Sophocles' and Euripides' drama, Roman comedy's realism, and Virgil's Aeneid. It explores technical philological issues, metrical analyses, and classical reception from antiquity to modern readers, covering figures like Cicero, Varro, Horace, and Jerome.
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This collection is ideal for academics, postgraduate students, and serious scholars specialising in classical philology, ancient Greek and Roman literature, and classical studies. Readers with a strong interest in detailed textual criticism, classical theology, and the performance of ancient drama will find this volume particularly valuable.

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Harvard Studies in Classical Philology Volume 111 includes Jessica H. Clark, “Adfirmare and Appeals to Authority in Servius Danielis”; Michael A. Tueller, “Dido the Author”; Charles H. Cosgrove, “Semi-Lyrical Reading of Greek Poetry in Late Antiquity”; and other new essays on Greek and Roman Classics.

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Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 111 features articles by:

Daniel Kölligen, "Ὄρθος, The Watchdog"; Richard L. Phillips, "Invisibility and Sight in Homer: Some Aspects of A. S. Pease Reconsidered"; Antonio Tibiletti, "Pondering Pindaric Superlatives in Context"; Matthew Hiscock, "Αὐθέντης: A 'Mot Fort' in the Discourse of Classical Athens"; James T. Clark, "Off-Stage Cries? The Performance of Sophocles' Philoctetes 201–218, Trachiniae 863–870, and Euripides' Electra 747–760".

Giuseppe Pezzini, "Terence and the Speculum Vitae: 'Realism' and (Roman) Comedy"; Neil O'Sullivan, "Quotations from Epicurean Philosophy and Greek Tragedy in Three Letters of Cicero"; Ernesto Paparazzo, "A Study of Varro's Account of Roman Civil Theology in the Antiquitates Rerum Divinarum and Its Reception by Augustine and Modern Readers".

Joseph P. Dexter and Pramit Chaudhuri, "Dardanio Anchisae: Hiatus, Homer, and Intermetricality in the Aeneid"; Michael A. Tueller, "Dido the Author: Epigram and the Aeneid"; Benjamin Victor, Nancy Duval, and Isabelle Chouinard, "Subordinating si and ni in Virgil: Some Characteristic Uses, with Remarks on Aeneid 6.882–883"; Richard Gaskin, "On Being Pessimistic about the End of the Aeneid".

Gregory R. Mellen, "Num Delenda est Karthago? Metrical Wordplay and the Text of Horace Odes 4.8"; Kyle Gervais, "Dominoque legere superstes? Epic and Empire at the End of the Thebaid"; D. Clint Burnett, "Temple Sharing and Throne Sharing: A Reconsideration of Σύνναος and Σύνθρονος in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods".

Charles H. Cosgrove, "Semi-Lyrical Reading of Greek Poetry in Late Antiquity"; Byron MacDougall, "Better Recognize: Anagnorisis in Gregory of Nazianzus's First Invective against Julian"; Alan Cameron, "Jerome and the Historia Augusta"; Jessica H. Clark, "Adfirmare and Appeals to Authority in Servius Danielis"; and Jarrett T. Welsh, "Nonius Marcellus and the Source Called 'Gloss. i.'".

Series: Harvard Studies in Classical Philology

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780674268999

Publisher: Harvard Department of the Classics

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 04 January 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Harvard Department of the Classics

Illustration: 2 photos, 1 table

Contributors:

  • Edited by Richard F. Thomas
  • Edited by Kathleen M. Coleman
  • Edited by Ivy J. Livingston

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 44.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 816g

Pages: 638

About the Author

Richard F. Thomas is George Martin Lane Professor of the Classics at Harvard University. Kathleen M. Coleman is James Loeb Professor of the Classics at Harvard University. Ivy J. Livingston is a Preceptor in the Classics at Harvard University.

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